SD does not release the drive.

[Izzy]

Well, so much for being so sure :-)
I just tried this and it did not work well.

I named the backup drive identically to the main drive.
Changed the icons to be able to see which one I am dealing with.
Checked in Spotlight Prefs to make sure that Macintosh HD (main drive) is in the Privacy area. (I guess it will be backed up to my backup drive).
Used SD to backup my main drive.

Restarted from the backup drive:
1- each drive appears on the desktop with icons overlapping each other (I guess due to the same name). I tried it twice after separating icons on the Desktop - same thing.
2 - cannot run any utilities on the main drive as system cannot eject the main drive. Checked the Spotlight prefs, now that I started from the backup drive to see what copied during the last backup - the backup drive is in the Privacy area . And though its name is the same as main drive - I clearly can see the icon of the backup drive.

I cannot say I am sure :-), but it seems to me that it is not possible to fool the Spotlight prefs just by dragging the drive with particular name assuming that all the other drives that have the same name will be ignored by Spotlight. Looks like it is not just name based - Spotlight prefs remember that actual piece of hardware that was dragged into Privacy Area.


May be I am wrong, but it seems to me that my scenario (having main drive and backup drive inside of computer) is not that outlandish.
So hopefully that solution you will find would be helpfull for others as well.

That's why I will ask again :-)
Is there any other way?

:: Izzy ::